Poets will build their poetry-writing skills with help from past and contemporary masters - everything from generating ideas to examining the finished poem. They'll learn how to: Use journals to develop their observational skills and turn life experiences into ideas for poems; Master the tools of the trade - voice, line, stanza, title, meter and rhyme; Acquire fluency in a variety of poetry formats and forms, everything from narrative, lyric and dramatic verse (traditional formats) to fixed, free and sequence styles ...
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Poets will build their poetry-writing skills with help from past and contemporary masters - everything from generating ideas to examining the finished poem. They'll learn how to: Use journals to develop their observational skills and turn life experiences into ideas for poems; Master the tools of the trade - voice, line, stanza, title, meter and rhyme; Acquire fluency in a variety of poetry formats and forms, everything from narrative, lyric and dramatic verse (traditional formats) to fixed, free and sequence styles (traditional forms) Fine tune their work; Exercises, assignments and sample work from more than 100 standout poets - everyone from Louise Gluck to Walt Whitman - ensure that every reader, whether poet, student or bibliophile, discovers just how extraordinary poetry can be.
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Michael J. Bugeja's book has three sections. The first deals with genres of poetry, the second with tools of the trade (voice, line, stanza...), and the third with set forms of poetry. While the latter two sections are well done, for me the book's strength is in the first section. Looking at poetry in terms of genre (love poetry, political poetry, occasion poetry...) was a new way of viewing things and is a good way to stimulate ideas for poems. In fact, Bugeja's whole book is designed to get you writing. Each chapter contains a discussion of the topic, followed by a mini-anthology of poems that illustrate that topic, and culminating in exercises encouraging you to put your new-found knowledge into practice. These exercises are presented in three levels so that you can return to the book several times, each time tackling a new level. My first time through I came away with enough ideas to keep me busy writing for a long time to come. This book is a good basic text and a sure relief for writer's block.
